| Crdentia Awarded Joint Commission Health Care Staffing Services Certification
DALLAS, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Crdentia Corp. (BULLETIN BOARD: CRDT) , a leading U.S. provider of healthcare staffing services, today announced that the Company has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval for health care staffing services. The Joint Commission has awarded Crdentia its Health Care Staffing Services Certification for two years. Crdentia met national standards addressing how staffing firms determine the qualifications and competency of their staff, how they place their staff and then monitor staff's performance. "Health care organizations that contract with Crdentia can look to this certification as an assurance that Crdentia demonstrates a commitment to providing and continuously improving quality services," said Michele Sacco, executive director, Health Care Staffing Services Certification, Joint Commission.
Jury gets Robinson nursing home case
An Allegheny County this afternoon began deliberating the fate of a former Robinson nursing home administrator charged in connection with the October 2001 death of an elderly resident with Alzheimers disease. Martha Bell, 60, of West Mifflin, headed the Ronald Reagan Atrium I Nursing and Rehabilitation Center when Mabel Taylor, 88, wandered outside during the night and was discovered dead in a courtyard. Bell is charged with involuntary manslaughter and attempting to cover up how Taylor died, among other charges. The nursing home and its parent corporation, the Alzheimer's Disease Alliance of Western Pennsylvania, are also on trial. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Merrick urged jurors in his closing argument to convict Bell because she had been warned repeatedly about danger risks at the facility and chose to reap financial gains instead of investing money to hire the necessary staff.
Firefighters lauded for heroism, service
Two Edwardsville firefighters were honored Tuesday with the Medal of Valor for their heroic rescue of an unconscious teenager from a burning house just days after one of the area's worst ice storms. Firefighters Matt Sinnokrak and Bill Reiter were recognized just before the Edwardsville City Council meeting for their actions during a Dec. 2 fire at 7077 Pin Oak Road. "Heavy smoke and high heat conditions inside of the house created a zero visibility situation, requiring these firefighters to go by sense of feel alone," Edwardsville Fire Chief J. Brian Wilson said during the ceremony. "Reiter and Sinnokrak rapidly searched through each room of the first floor, find the victim in a back bedroom. Nineteen-year-old Caleb Bruce was found unconscious on the bedroom floor and was quickly removed and placed into a waiting ambulance." Bruce, who had not seen the firefighters since the rescue, assisted Wilson by presenting the medals to the firefighters.
In study, bilingual brains stay sharp longer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After school, Carlos and Carmen Nguyen shuttle between two sets of grandparents in happy bursts of English, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Their parents love the way languages open their children's eyes to the family's heritage and to other cultures. Yet when they began their multilingual journey, they never imagined that Carlos and Carmen, now 6 and 9, also might be developing brains especially good at ignoring distractions and better able to withstand aging. "This is incredible," said the children's mother, Irene Bersola-Nguyen, a child development lecturer at California State University, Sacramento, who has been trading delighted e-mails with friends and colleagues about the latest study on the bilingual brain. A team of Canadian researchers who studied people being treated for dementia found that those who regularly used two languages reported their first symptoms of a fading mind about four years later than those who used only one language.
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